A formal garden sounds grand and imposing, evoking images of huge, impeccably manicured gardens attached to European palaces. But what if we told you that anyone can have a formal garden, even in ...

A formal garden sounds grand and imposing, evoking images of huge, impeccably manicured gardens attached to European palaces. But what if we told you that anyone can have a formal garden, even in ...

Whether it be the royal gardens of Versailles in France, or a yard pruned to perfection at a home in Atlanta, formal gardens can enhance the look of a traditional-style estate.

As A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet, brings the gardens of Versailles to cinemas, explore the history, style and conventions of this design ...

Essentially, his were pleasure gardens, places to entertain and impress, and in 1682, he also named Versailles as his official seat of government.

Politics The New Rose Garden Is Fit for an Unchecked Presidency Melania Trump’s redesign has turned it into Versailles in miniature—exactly what it was not meant to be.

We will see how, moving beyond absolutism, the model of the French formal garden, construed as an open-ended spatial type, has been going through a mutation–conceptual and technological–in ...

And its exquisite formal gardens — modeled after the spectacular gardens at Versailles — were conceived by prominent Parisian landscape designer, Jacques Gréber.

It may appear rustic on the outside, but the inside of Marie Antoinette’s retreat is bursting with luxury. Known as the Queen’s House, the three-story, neoclassical chateau is set the gardens ...

Angela Aaron Horowitz doesn’t have a backyard. She and her family have a sweeping garden that extends from a formal loggia, across a checkerboard terrace, to a graceful pool and on to a verdant ...